For almost a century, Turkey has been proof that secular democracy can exist in a primarily Muslim country.
That, it is terribly sad to say, no longer is true.
From Kara Fox, Eliott C. McLaughlin and James Masters’ article at cnn.com:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s prime minister have declared victory in a Sunday referendum designed to hand Erdogan sweeping powers.
Goodbye parliamentary democracy. Hello Islamic dictatorship for the fundamentalist Erdogan.
And the Turkish people have no one to blame for this but themselves. They elected Erdogan and this is not the first time they have handed him additional powers at the cost of democracy.
Let’s see how long they are happy with what they have done, and with its affect on their relations with the free world – which Turkey, increasingly, is not a part of anymore.
